Vera's Room: The Art of Maria Chevska

by Hélène Cixous

This is the first monograph on the artist Maria Chevska. Like her work this book offers different approaches to its an essay by the renowned critic and art historian Tony Godfrey considers the artist's oeuvre from its painterly beginnings to its 'multimedia' present. Godfrey locates Chevska's practice at the nexus of modernism and its elimination. With a particular focus on her use of material and text the essay reveals an underlying conflict that lies at the heart of Chevska's work which continuously moves from the very small to the very large, from the sensual to the rough, from the light to the dark.

158 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Hélène Cixous is a Jewish-French, Algerian-born feminist well-known as one of the founders of poststructuralist feminist theory along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. She is now a professor of English Literature at University of Paris VIII and chairs the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines which she founded in 1974.

She has published numerous essays, playwrights, novels, poems, and literary criticism. Her academic works concern subjects of feminism, the human body, history, death, and theatre.